urxvt error

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"Jagadeesh N. Malakannavar" <mnjagadeesh at gmail.com> writes:

> urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using
> -fn,
> aborting.
>
>
> my .Xdefaults is
>
> urxvt.font: xft: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=12
> urxvt.boldfont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:pixelsize=12

I would check to see that rxvt-unicode was built with xft support:

    $ urxvt -v
    rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v9.15 - released: 2012-01-21
    options: perl,xft,styles,...
                  ^^^

Be sure you have both pkgconfig and libxft installed on your system
before re-compiling rxvt-unicode with `./configure --enable-xft ...`

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